Amy Irving

Amy Irving

  • Birthday: 1953-09-10
  • Place of birth: Palo Alto, California, USA

Biography

Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Palo Alto, California, to actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, Irving spent her early life in San Francisco before her family relocated to New York City during her teenage years. In New York, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965–1966) at age 13. Irving subsequently studied theater at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), followed by a lead role in the 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury (1978). In 1980, Irving appeared in a Broadway production of Amadeus before being cast in Yentl (1983), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997). In film, she starred in the ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and reprised her role in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) before co-starring opposite Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's crime-drama Traffic (2000). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and Adam (2009). From 2006 to 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. In 2018, she reunited with Soderbergh, appearing in a supporting role in his horror film Unsane. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Irving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Crossing Delancey

1988

As Isabelle Grossman

Rumpelstiltskin

1987

As Katie

Bossa Nova

2000

As Mary Ann Simpson

A Show of Force

1990

As Kate Melendez

Kleptomania

1995

As Diana Allen

The Turn of the Screw

1989

As The Governess

The Velveteen Rabbit

1988

As Narrator (voice)

Benefit of the Doubt

1993

As Karen Braswell

Carried Away

1996

As Rosealee Henson

Micki + Maude

1984

As Maude Salinger

The Competition

1980

As Heidi Joan Schoonover

Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

1994

As Melissa Sanders - James' Fiancee (segment "The Theater")

Voices

1979

As Rosemarie Lemon

The Confession

1999

As Sarah Fertig

I'm a Fool

1977

As Lucy

Confetti

2020

As Helen

Yentl

1983

As Hadass

Honeysuckle Rose

1980

As Lily

Carrie

1976

As Sue Snell

The Rage: Carrie 2

1999

As Sue Snell

The Fury

1978

As Gillian Bellaver

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

As Clara Gelber

De Palma

2016

As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting 'Carrie'

2001

As Self

Adam

2009

As Rebecca Buchwald

Hide and Seek

2005

As Alison Callaway

Dynasty

1976

As Amanda Blackwood

Unsane

2018

As Angela Valentini

A Mouthful of Air

2021

As Bobbi Davis

Panache

1976

As Anne

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1991

As Miss Kitty (voice)

Tuck Everlasting

2002

As Mother Foster

Blue Ridge Fall

1999

As Ellie Perkins

James Dean

1976

As Norma Jean

One Tough Cop

1998

As FBI Agent Jean Devlin

Traffic

2000

As Barbara Wakefield

Citizen Steve

1987

As Self - Actress / Wife

Casualties of War

1989

As Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)

She's Having a Baby

1988

As Amy Irving (uncredited)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988

As Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Carried Away

1996

As Executive Producer

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